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Tech.Ed started on May 16th, 2011 and over on May 19, 2011 and overall experience was really interesting, awesome. I was expecting lot of sessions on SQL Server “Denali” and SQL Azure and my expectations were met.

I am putting up this post to share my experiences and the sessions I attended in Tech.Ed 2011, Most of the sessions are available online at Channel 9 for viewing at no cost and also available for download (MP4, WMV, High Quality WMV)

To easily download the videos which you want, you can use this nice Silverlight tool available in http://dayngo.com/channel9/Download/15928 (Thanks to Yuriy Lyeshchenko for putting together this nice useful tool)

Day 1:

Tech-Ed kicked off with great opening Key note session by Robert Wahbe and Jason Zander – View Online

I got the wonderful chance to meet Eric Hanson in person and had lunch with him and discussed about Column Store Indexes, OPTION RECOMPILE and other performance tuning suggestions for data warehouse related topics.

The Vendor Reception in the evening was awesome, able to meet the Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Azure team members in person and discuss with them.

Apart from the above break out session, I attended a Interactive Session “What to Use and When”, the session is about what business intelligence tool to use and when to use (PowerPivot, PowerPoint, Report Builder, BIDS, SharePoint, PerformancePoint, Excel and Excel Services)

I also attended the Tech.Ed 2011 Focus Group Panel discussion to give feedback about Tech.Ed 2011 conducted by Mind Wave Research group on behalf of Microsoft